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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

A Novel Mobile Structured Light System in Food 3D Reconstruction and Volume Estimation.

Sepehr Makhsous, Hashem M Mohammad, Jeannette M Schenk, Alexander V Mamishev, Alan R Kristal

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Sepehr MakhsousSensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. sosper30@uw.edu.
Hashem M MohammadSensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. hashemm@uw.edu.
Jeannette M SchenkFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. jschenk@fredhutch.org.
Alexander V MamishevSensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. mamishev@uw.edu.
Alan R KristalFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. alan.kristal@fredhutch.org.

Funding

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 5U01CA135133-04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

. Over the past ten years, diabetes has rapidly become more prevalent in all age demographics and especially in children. Improved dietary assessment techniques are necessary for epidemiological studies that investigate the relationship between diet and disease. Current nutritional research is hindered by the low accuracy of traditional dietary intake estimation methods used for portion size assessment. This paper presents the development and validation of a novel instrumentation system for measuring accurate dietary intake for diabetic patients. This instrument uses a mobile Structured Light System (SLS), which measures the food volume and portion size of a patient's diet in daily living conditions. The SLS allows for the accurate determination of the volume and portion size of a scanned food item. Once the volume of a food item is calculated, the nutritional content of the item can be estimated using existing nutritional databases. The system design includes a volume estimation algorithm and a hardware add-on that consists of a laser module and a diffraction lens. The experimental results demonstrate an improvement of around 40% in the accuracy of the volume or portion size measurement when compared to manual calculation. The limitations and shortcomings of the system are discussed in this manuscript.

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3d reconstructiondepth measurementdietary measurementimage segmentationmobile structured light systemvolume measurement

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PMID30700041
PMCPMC6386919

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